Over 35 years of legal, financial, banking, and investment experience. Done business in more than 60 countries and supervised company work in another 70. Responsible for structuring, documenting and closing billions of dollars in projects -- both debt and equity financings -- since 1972. Extensive ...more

Over 35 years of legal, financial, banking, and investment experience. Done business in more than 60 countries and supervised company work in another 70. Responsible for structuring, documenting and closing billions of dollars in projects -- both debt and equity financings -- since 1972. Extensive legal experience with drafting contracts and related documents, as well as regulations and legislation. Investment, Merger, Acquisition: Negotiated, structured and closed numerous transactions in many countries. Investment and Capital Markets: Responsible for capital markets issues, corporate finance, and the investment management of over US$ 1.3 billion equivalent in funds. Project Finance: Have 30 years in international project financing, and the last 10 in domestic US project finance. Privatization and Corporatization: Developed and implemented the privatized capitalization of a major State Owned Enterprise and advised on the privatization of several local and central government financings. Bank Management: Banker since 1974 including over 17 years with Bank of America in San Francisco, Tokyo, London and Cairo. Managed over US$ 1.3 billion in client and corporate funds. Established Admiralty Group in 1988 as a privately held merchant bank. Corporate Restructuring, loan work-outs and salvage in many countries. Author of the Bank of America's "Guide to Problem Loans". Credit and Lending: Involved with loan approval since 1974. Senior lending authority positions in the US, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Responsible for division wide loan portfolio of US$500,000,000. Personal (sole signature) lending limit was US$10,000,000. Legal: Negotiated, documented and closed complex project financings. Familiar with company law, commercial law, tax, securities, investment, merger and acquisition laws in virtually all major countries. Drafted financing and tax regulations for the US Government. Specialties: Negotiation and deal making. Finance, project finance, microfinance. Enterprise restructuring, bank restructuring, privatization, corporatization. Investment, investment management and investment promotion. Start ups. Capital markets. Debt and equity raising.less